Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well, might be prompted to enter the war. "China doesn't want to risk her air force," a U.S. official points out, "but she may have to, or else lose all her bona fides." Stone-Age Solution. Despite these drawbacks, the Administration has been under intense pressure to bomb the Hanoi-Haiphong complex. Echoing the Joint Chiefs, politicians of both parties -notably Georgia Democrat Richard Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and his opposite number in the House, South Carolina Democrat L. Mendel Rivers-have be gun to protest that privileged targets hamper the war effort. Richard...
...answer, of course, is no. Hsinhua, Red China's official press agency, reiterated Hanoi's uninterest in negotiations by releasing a letter that North Viet Nam's President Ho Chi Minh wrote two weeks ago to U.S. Scientist Linus Pauling, a leading ban-the-bomb crusader. For the umpteenth time, Ho denounced "U.S. aggression," calling it "the sole root of the serious situation in Viet Nam and in Southeast Asia." His letter then proceeded to enunciate the unvarying set of preconditions to peace talks that Hanoi laid down last April. Once again Ho insisted that the "most...
...cast permanently in the role of serfs to the Alliance's nuclear knights, the resulting bitterness will lead to a new outburst of German nationalism. The West Germans know that for the foreseeable future they cannot have nuclear weapons of their own. Germany with the Bomb is a prospect that alarms Western Europe nearly as much as it does Russia and the satellites. What Erhard does want is a greater share in both nuclear planning and in the control over the "hardware" of the tactical weapons on German soil. De Gaulle does not want the Germans to have even...
...Pong massif-scene of the bloodiest encounter between American and North Vietnamese regulars to date-swept a multi-battalion relief force of rested, rambunctious South Vietnamese paratroopers. As U.S. planes plastered the jungly ridges (in some 600 sorties since Nov. 14), the South Vietnamese paras roared in behind the bomb blasts looking for "an opportunity to show their fighting skills." During their first day, they killed 180 Reds. Then the North Vietnamese pulled back to lick their wounds, much to the paratroopers' disgust. There was fighting in plenty, however, around the huge, abandoned Michelin rubber plantation near Dau Tieng...
Before the first H-bomb was exploded, there were only a few pounds of tritium-a triple-weight, radioactive form of hydrogen-in the atmosphere and in all the world's seas. By the end of 1962, when the Russians and the U.S. had ended their atmospheric testing, the tritium released by H-blasts had increased the total to about 600 Ibs. The proliferation of the relatively harmless isotope has been of little concern to most laymen and scientists, but it has enabled University of Miami Chemist Gote Ostlund to draw an important conclusion about hurricanes: instead of getting...